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Ireland presses Brexit border issue on EU tour

Irish leader Leo Varadkar has said "we cannot contemplate" a hard border with Northern Ireland if Britain left the EU with no deal. He spoke in Croatia on a short EU tour pressing Dublin's position on Brexit. Andrej Plenkovic, his Croatian counterpart, said "populists, such as "Mr Farage" (a British MEP), had tried to "meddle" in his country's EU-entry referendum. "I deeply disagree with everything they stand for," he said.

This is a political crisis unprecedented in Austria since the war: the resignation of the vice-chancellor, firing of the interior minister, the mass resignation of FPO ministers, a snap election, and a no-confidence vote in the Austrian parliament on Monday.

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A planned high-speed railway connection through the Alps between Italy and France has been highly controversial for decades and is pitting governing Italian coalition parties against each other. But the European Commission insists it must go ahead.